What flower says Summer is here?

Where is the start of Summer in your garden?
Is a poppy a spring or summer flower?

gus -- my poppies [i believe they are California Poppies] look similar to your photo. lil bulb thing and all... though i do recall last year, they were summer bloomers ... but they were also sown last year, if that has anything to do with it.

Wait wait wait - I'm just getting into spring full swing! Not summer, not yet! Please?

These are perennial poppies,this is last years photo.

The start of summer is Rudbeckia to me. Any of them, perennial or annual; I am pretty sure that's because they are short day flowering plants, and left to their own devices in the garden, don't bloom until June 22. (I'm told the blooming ones at the garden center were manipulated into thinking it was short days by greenhouse-growing under extra lights, and then decreasing the time on those lights)

Suzy

very pretty Suzy!!

I know i have a lot of "Gloriosa Daisy" that germinated -- I hope they do that well.

Interesting, in my mind peonies and tall bearded iris are the transitional flowers. Everything that blooms before are spring flowers and after are summer flowers.

That sounds good to me .I was mostly trying to figure where to start a new file. I am trying to chronicle my garden in photos this year and I know there will be too many photos for one file.
I thought about month by month but I have already started a spring file and it is filling up (200 plus ).

Your poppy looks like an oriental. They're definitely a late Spring flower.

Suzy, I agree - the BES's are definitely a statement of summer - a hot one!

Yanno -- I guess Roses to me mean summer.

Never really thought about it before until this thread -- and it obviously didn't hit me until a few posts ago.

**dink -- light bulb never went off**

I call my poppies Spring flowers, because they bloom right about NOW, and it is still quite cool out. Here is my first poppy of the year, two days ago. Now I have about 15 blooming!